The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-25

l Oh exClusiVh hoAoSOhoto buVpto0 Dy
life insurance companies. Also for
having employed two thoroughly
competent women physicians TO
make the needed examinations.
Women are on an equality in this
company 10 the terms and conditions
Of life insurance.
Miss Winifred Edgertou, OF Ripon.
Wis. was married in Old Trinity
church, New York City, on Thurs
day, to Prof. II. j. II. Merrill, of
Columbia College. Miss Edgerton
was the FIRST woman graduate at Co.
lum bis College. While she was a
student 10 Columbia, Prof. Merrill
was an instructor.
Ida Lewis, the heroine OF Lime
Rock. lives alone in the lighthouse.
her parents being dead and her
brother gone to follow the sea. Miss
Lewis saved thirteen lives between
1869 and 1881. She does sll her own
house worE, keeps the light trim med
aud burning, aud finds time to raise q
few flowers 10 the crevices OF the
rocks.
Miss Elaine Goodale, who is spend
ing the first vacation she has allowed
herself since she began work among
the Indians 10 lecturing on the In-
dian question in tho East, is doing
her best to elevate the tone OF the
day schools maintained on the reser-
vatious. At Lower Brule, OAK,
where some 1900 Indians are settled,
she has had full classes and unusual
success. She is there but sixty miles
or 80 from Miss Grace Howard,
daug hter Of Joe Howard, the journal
list, who, at Grow Creek, has under
taken kindred work, the introduc-
ton Of simple remunerative in
dustries among Indian girls.
Miss Lucy Salmon, the new pro-
lessor OF history at Vassar College,
is a woman with q future. Her book,
tThe Appointing Power Of the
President" is the clearest mono
graph that has appeared on that diff
icult subject, and is a noteworthy
production for one Of the non politi-
cal sex. Miss Salmon is q graduate
OF MichiQan University aud a fellow
OF Bryn Miwr College. Ii is curious,
by the way, that seven OF the ten
fellowships open TO competition in
that womsn's college are held by
graduates OF co-educational schools.
Miss Salmon is fine looking, with a
clear, open face, physically and men
tally healthy, and stesdfast looking.
The returns Of womeu's voting at
the recent school elections in the
country districts Of New York State
show that women there are using
their right OF suffrage more generally
than ever before. In several cases
where there was reason to believe
that they could promote the election
Of deserving candidates. they turned
out with commendable alacrity. At
North Tarrytown, alone, over one
hundred women voted, and several
times that number tried TO do 80, but
we're rejected on wrong construction
OF the law. At Spring Valley and at
Port Chester the women came out in
force. aud 10 the latter town they
turned the scale aud secured the
election Of an admirably qualified
woman on the school board.
@. T. H., OF Ennis, Tex, writes
tho Woman's Journal:
Cannot you induce some women
doctors TO como South Hundreds
Of families all through Texas, espe-
eially 10 towns Of 1000 nhabitants or
upward, would employ women ply.
sicisus instead Of men If they could
have the chance.
/ believe one lady physician would
do GOOD practice in our little town
OF $500 people.
Our country is all prairie roads
very 6ne; physicians all go 10 their
gigs aud buggies, and | cannot see
why woman in good health canno,
do as much Of such travelling a
these men do.